Big Books of Spring

Alphonso Horner > Alphonso's Quotes

Showing 1-19 of 19
sort by

    like
  • #1
    “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
    that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
    through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
    to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
    know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: biography, dreams, events, journey, life, life-journey, memoir, travel, true
    202 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Karl Braungart
    “You understand, gentlemen,” explained Jabir, “that you are working under my supervision?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: action, drama, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, lies, mystery, thriller, thriller-novel
    32 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Claudia Clark
    “In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics
    166 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Gina Buonaguro
    “Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers.”
    ― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
    tags: cultural-heritage, fiction, fiction-novel, heritage, historical, historical-fiction, history, insight, renaissance, women-s-saga
    32 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
    He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Story of the Gadsbys
    tags: confidence, depression, healing-the-past, know-thyself, loneliness, motivation
    11 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
    533 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Kristin Hannah
    “It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.”
    ― Kristin Hannah, Distant Shores
    tags: fame, fidelity, forgetting, forgive, forgiveness-quotes, infidelity, past
    11 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.”
    ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays
    61 likes

    • like
  • #9
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “(A) true wit never repeats himself; he lets others repeat his remarks for him.”
    ― E.L. Konigsburg, Father's Arcane Daughter
    4 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Jane Smiley
    “Compared with Iowa, Kansas City was a strange world. The Halls where she worked was in the most elegant place she’d ever been at that point, a made-up town for shopping, a Fifth Avenue on the prairie (when she got to the real Fifth Avenue, she wasn’t very impressed, because the Country Club Plaza had spoiled her).”
    ― Jane Smiley, Golden Age
    2 likes

    • like
  • #12
    “Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: blackmail, deception, trapped
    286 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
    Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
    tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance
    1442 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Mark Ellis
    “Wigmore turned towards the window. A column of armoured vehicles was making its way down the Mall towards Buckingham Palace. As he watched, he cursed himself for not remaining at the hotel. He looked at Merlin. ‘Very well. Go ahead with your bloody questions.”
    ― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer
    tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, grit, inspiring, military, real-life, true-story, uncertainty
    59 likes

    • like
  • #15
    K. Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
    894 likes

    • like
  • #16
    William L. Shirer
    “Hitler had never made any secret of, was that if the party ever took over Germany it would stamp out a German’s personal freedom, including that of Dr. Schacht and his business friends.”
    ― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
    5 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
    2282 likes

    • like
  • #18
    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    ― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates
    617 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Gary Chapman
    “may be offended. She thinks I wasn’t doing my job”
    ― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships
    4 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Peter S. Beagle
    “The sight of her makes me want to do battle with all evil and ugliness,”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
    11 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Alphonso’s Quotes

biography
dreams
events
journey
life
life-journey
memoir
travel
true
action
drama
fast-paced
fiction
intrigue
lies
mystery
thriller
thriller-novel
american-history
diplomacy
european-history
history
international
literary
politics
relationships
speeches
women-in-politics
cultural-heritage
fiction-novel
heritage
historical
historical-fiction
insight
renaissance
women-s-saga
confidence
depression
healing-the-past
know-thyself
loneliness
motivation
fame
fidelity
forgetting
forgive
forgiveness-quotes
infidelity
past
blackmail
deception
trapped
science-fiction
time-travel
time-travel-fiction
time-travel-romance
determination
difficulty
experience
fighting
grit
inspiring
military
real-life
true-story
uncertainty
adventure
engaging
exciting
fantasy-fiction
historical-fantasy
literary-fiction
literature
sorcery
facts
knowledge